Felt better off four years ago than you do now, vote for me. Does that make sense . That isnt an compelling argument to me. I mean, maybe for people who already decided they are going to vote for trump will be something that they will repeat. Most voters say the economy is their number one issue in the coming election, and despite good news about record job creation, economic growth and the lowest Inflation Rate in years, it is still a potential liability for the democrats. Now, while the rate of inflation may be falling, prices are of course still increasing and very few voters say they feel as though the economy is improving. Even in the White House economists describe there being a bad vibe around. And in an election year, that really matters. Kamara harris plans to lay out an economic policy focused on reducing the cost of living, including banning excessive corporate profits on food. Today, she is announcing lower prices for prescription drugs. And so in the united states of ameri
Push in congress to make a temporary policy from the president s american Rescue Plan permanent. To stop child hunger. Thats the literal name of the act. Congresswoman hayes is part of that push. She will join me in a matter of minutes. Does her bill have a chance of passing . Today, The Big Question is if congress can come together on another item, infrastructure. The president is meeting with republican lead negotiators in a matter of hours. The ball is in the white Houses Court after the gop released its infrastructure counterproposal. The difference in the Price Tag is gaping. The runway for getting this done is shrinking. It has the president sending new signals on the direction he sees his agenda heading. He is tapping Vice President harris to tackle Voting Rights and drawing a Line In The Sand with his party over his agenda as time slips away. With two specific democratic senators to be exact. He is not naming names, but they are getting the message. A lot to talk about. First,
on a huge fire at the rohingya refugee camp in bangladesh. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the eu s threat to restrict vaccine exports to the uk remains the eu is frustrated that while astrazeneca the uk s full order of vaccines it hasn t been able to meet its targets for the eu. this was the eu earlier. this is not about banning vaccine. of course this is about making sure that companies deliver on their commitments to the member states in the european union that are inscribed in contracts that they have with us. and then this is the uk s prime minister, borisjohnson. i ve talked to our friends repeatedly over the period. we re all facing the same pandemic, we all have the same problems. i think there s one worth stressing is on the continent right now you can see sadly, there is a third wave underway. and people in this country should be under no illusions that previous experience has taught us that when a wave hits ourfriends, i m afraid
cdc. this morning, vice president kamala harris pitched the administration s covid relief plan as the answer for ramping up vaccinations. she says, teachers should be a priority and move up in line. here is what she just told savannah guthrie about the urgency to get this passed and people vaccinated. sometimes you talk about hurricanes and what we need to do relief afterward. this hurricane is still raging. we still have people dying on a daily basis. we have got to address this. that s what the president and i and the american rescue plan is designed to address. an emergency that is occurring right now and is ongoing. we need to act and we need to act now. the race to vaccinate some communities is so urgent that one pastor of a black church in virginia is literally going door to door asking his members to get one. his church was slated to open its doors a few seconds ago. it s a place where people can get vaccinated with the help of county nurses. nbc s aaron gilchrist
they can t handle. the buildings are not made to withstand these kinds of temperatures, and we re seeing that play out in the fact that people are trying to stay warm however they can. people have been sending in pictures of the thermostats inside their homes, and it s heartbreaking. one reads 45 degrees. i spoke to another gentleman who had to move his wife across the street in the snow after it dropped into the 30s there into a neighbor s home because they were the only ones that had a fireplace. that s up here in dallas. in houston, they re also breaking record lows as well. we had a chance to hear from the county judge in harris county on the state of really this frigid disaster playing out. take a listen. demand is up right now. a lot of the plants, the production plants, are down, and that is natural gas, all sorts of production. in order for the texas power grid not to fail, there has to be a balance between the two. the weather is going to go away in a couple days.